With 2.42 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.11 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $28.61 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $28.08. The 52-week range on UBS shows that it touched its highest point at $35.28 and its lowest point at $25.34 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $34.52. With its current market cap of 90.61 billion, UBS has annualized dividend of $0.80 while the current yield stands at 2.79%. UBS paid its most recent dividend on 1714435200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1744761600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.16.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of UBS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.16%, but this was down by -11.44% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -17.40% while six-month performance fell -10.96%. The stock gained 4.47% in the past year, while it has lost -4.38% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UBS yields 1.52 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.98. For the next quarter, that number is 0.53. This implies an EPS growth rate of 30.88% for this year and 49.81% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 36.11% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 6.24%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 3.17 billion UBS shares are outstanding with a float of 2.94 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 10.78 million, which was 34.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Sergio P. Ermotti as the firm’s Group CEO & President of the Group Executive Board, Mr. Todd Tuckner serves as its Group CFO & Member of Executive Board.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.54698 of UBS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for UBS since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With UBS analysts setting a high price target of 31.7 and a low target of 31.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 31.6. Based on these targets, UBS could surge 11.07% to reach the target high and rise by 10.37% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.72% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.76166 being high and $1.60695 being low. For UBS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.68494. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.43 and the low estimate is $0.43. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.43.
